Improvement in backband-hooks



I diritti me? aiod @dat HENRY BEAGrLlil, J R., OF .I-PHLADELPHIIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 109,572, dated November 29, 1870.

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.The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the same.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY BnAGL, Jr., of Philadelphia.,i11 the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Backband-Hook; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying c'lrawingforming part of this speeication, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved bark-` vcatch pon the harness of the other horse; and

It consists in the backband-hook constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents aportion of a backband which may be made of a leather strap or a' piece of webbing, or any other suitable material.

-B C is the hook, the partB of which is made of hoop or band-iron, having its ends bent over upon itself', as shown in iig. 2 and in dotted lines in fig. 1, to

receive the edges ofthe baekband A, so that the 'said' ,hook may be secured to the said backband by closing down the ends of thesad iron B upon the said backbxuid A.

C is the hook or loop-that receives the trace, one end of' which is securely riveted to the part B. The hook C may be bent downward, outward, and upward, and its extreme end bent inward close to the backband A, asshown in iig. 1. Or it may be bent downward, inward, and upward, so as to be close to the hackstrap, its extreme end being left straight or bent outward slightly, as shown in tig. 3.

The exact form ofthe hook C is immaterial so long as a sufiicient loop is formed for the trace, and so long 'as the point or free end of the said hook is so arranged with reference to the backband A that the trace can not work out andthe point of the hook cannot catch upon the harness 4of the other horse.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure hy Letters Patent- A baekband-hooh formed of band-iron B, having its ends bent over upon itself, and a trace-hook, C, bent inwardly at lthe point, both riveted together, lor the purpose specified.

, HENRY BEAGLE, Jn.

Witnesses:

IETER HAY, THOMAS BEAGLE. 

